Benedetta Craveri,"La contessa. Virginia Verasis di Castiglione" ("The Countess. Virginia Verasis di Castiglione"), Milano, Adelphi, 2021.The author talks of her new biography of the Italian “divine comtesse”, as Robert de Montesquiou put it, woman of mystery and beauty, protagonist of the court of the French Second Empire with the aim of favouring Italian unification, and one of the first women to rebel against the moral bourgeois rules of the XIX century.
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